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Showing posts with label Nate Kenyon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nate Kenyon. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Waiting on Wednesday: Sparrow Rock

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:


Sparrow Rock
by Nate Kenyon
Publication date: Apr 27, 2010

Prepare yourself for an unforgettable experience in fear.

They were just a group of high school kids looking for a place to party. They didn’t know the end of the world was coming. Now, alone and trapped below ground, they are being stalked—and the creatures that come to visit them through the dirt and ash are like nothing anyone has ever seen before.

There is a new ruling life form on earth, and six humans are the only remaining prey.

Welcome to your worst nightmare. Welcome to…

SPARROW ROCK

Read the first chapter of Sparrow Rock.
What are you waiting for?


Waiting on Wednesdays is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

 
Sparrow Rock
Publisher/Publication Date: Leisure Books, Apr 27, 2010
ISBN: 978-0843963779
336 pages

Friday, September 4, 2009

Friday Finds 9-4-2009

Here are my finds this week!




The Hiding Place by Karen Harper

Publisher: Mira

After spending nine months in a coma, Tara Kinsale awakes to devastating news. Her best friend, Alexis, has been murdered, leaving Tara as guardian to her daughter, Claire. And Tara's husband has divorced her for another woman.

Forced to start over, Tara focuses on reopening her P.I. firm and caring for Claire. But soon her world is shattered again when Nick MacMahon, Claire's uncle, returns from military service in Afghanistan to take guardianship of his niece. The bad dream turns unbearable when Tara learns that something precious was taken from her while she was in a coma.

Working with Nick, a man haunted by his own past, Tara begins to investigate the missing months of her life. Together, they will find that secrets don't stay buried forever…even when they are kept in the darkest of hiding places. (Amazon)


We Bought a Zoo: The Amazing True Story of a Young Family, a Broken Down Zoo, and the 200 Wild Animals that Changed Their Lives Forever
by Benjamin Mee


Publisher: Weinstein Books

Here is a story about triumph against all odds.

When Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home – a dilapidated zoo where more than 200 exotic animals would be their new neighbors – his friends and colleagues thought he was crazy. Mee’s dream was to refurbish the zoo and run it as a family business. The grand reopening was scheduled for spring, but there was much work to be done and none of it easy for these novice zookeepers. Tigers broke loose, money was tight, the staff was sceptical, and family tensions ran high.

Then tragedy struck. Katherine Mee, Benjamin’s wife, had a recurrence of a brain tumor, forcing Benjamin and his two young children to face the heartbreak of illness and the devastating loss of a wife and mother. But inspired by the memory of Katherine and the healing power of the incredible family of animals they had grown to love. Benjamin and his kids resolved to move forward, and today the zoo is a thriving success.

We Bought a Zoo is the heartwarming and unforgettable story of an ordinary family living in the most extraordinary circumstances. (Weinstein Books)


The Reach by Nate Kenyon


Publisher: Leisure Books

Starred Review. Kenyon (Bloodstone) shifts smoothly between '80s-style supernatural horror and modern-day science thriller in this superb sophomore effort. Sarah Voorsanger's birth was so explosive that the hospital burned down. Her grandparents attempted to raise her, but after several episodes of psychokinesis, they decided she was the Antichrist and turned her over to the state. Now 10 years old, Sarah is virtually imprisoned in a Boston institution, where agents of Helix Pharmaceuticals experiment on her with drugs designed to activate psychic abilities. When psychology grad student Jess Chambers bonds with Sarah, first outraged by her condition and then shocked by her extraordinary paranormal talents, she knows she must rescue the child from Helix before the company awakens her most deadly powers. Readers, left breathless, will hope Kenyon makes good on hints of a sequel. (Dec.)
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Wonderful Win: Prime by Nate Kenyon


Prime by Nate Kenyon

Publisher: Apex Publications

When I announced that I had won The Bone Factory last week from Nate Kenyon, I forgot to tell you all about the "surprise" book, Prime, that was in the package!

About the book: When simulated interactions are an essential part of life, a programming glitch can be devastating, especially for the company that controls the sims.

William Bellow is an experienced bug hunter who comes as close as any human to the anticipated Transformation that links man to machine. As he digs into the problems surrounding New London's most advanced programming, the nature of his own memories and the events of his past are called into questions. Desperate manipulations and complex deceptions take him from the corporate towers to the underground resistance as Bellow's work quickly escalates into a fight for his life in both the physical and virtual worlds.

Kenyon's fast-paced, twisting thriller tracks Bellow's progress forward through the case and backward through his own questionable past. Prime is a must-read for fans of Richard K. Morgan, Neal Stephenson, and Philip K. Dick. (from the back cover)

Prime
Publisher/Publication Date: Apex Publications, July 2009
ISBN: 978-0-9821596-2-0
156 pages



Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Wonderful Win: The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon

The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon

Publisher: Leisure Books/Dorchester Publishing

I won this autographed copy from Nate Kenyon's website!! Some of you might remember that I had featured this book on a Friday's Find awhile back. I am so excited that I won it!!!!

About the book: The biggest news in the small northern town of Jackson was the reopening of the local hydropower plant. Until the deaths. First a farmer was found horribly mutilated in his field. Then a little girl disappeared from her home. Deep in the woods a deputy came upon a chamber of horrors straight from a nightmare. And through it all, one child is haunted by visions of the mysterious "blue man," a madman who brings with him blood and pain and terror, a terror spawned by forces no one can understand. (from the back cover)

About the author: Nate Kenyon grew up in a small town in Maine with dark nights and long winters to feed his interest in writing. His stories have appeared in various magazines and in the horror anthology Terminal Frights. Kenyon lives in a recently restored 1840s Greek Revival home in the New England area with his wife, Nicole, their three children, and their ferocious dog, Bailey. Bloodstone, his first novel, was a Bram Stoker Award finalist and a P&E Horror Novel of the Year award winner.


The Bone Factory
Publisher/Publication Date: Leisure Books, June 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8439-6287-1
320 pages

Friday, July 3, 2009

Friday Finds 7-3-2009


Here are my finds this week!


The Bone Factory by Nate Kenyon

Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Company

About the book: The Jackson Pumped Storage Project was supposed to be one of the most ambitious hydropower experiments in the world. But when a particularly brutal winter and bad planning forced a shutdown in construction, it became one of the most expensive mistakes the locals had ever seen. That is, until Hydro Development decided to try again, and awakened a sleeping giant–and the murders begin.

A thousand miles away, hydropower engineer David Pierce gets a second chance when he’s hired to head a crucial part of the resurrected facility. Recently fired from a position with a rival company, his world was swiftly crumbling before his eyes, his marriage in trouble and money growing tight. In the blink of an eye, everything changes, and he, his wife and their young daughter are driving to Quebec City to begin their new lives together.

But Jessica Pierce is no ordinary little girl, and the visions that have haunted her since birth swiftly grow worse: visions of the “blue man,” and with him comes blood and pain and terror. There begins the most horrifying few weeks of the family’s lives as they battle the unforgiving Canadian winter and a madman under the influence of something far more terrifying and destructive than anyone can understand. (from author's website)

Read an excerpt of The Bone Factory now!

About the author: Nate Kenyon grew up in a small town in Maine, an avid reader and writer from a very early age. He attended Trinity College in Connecticut, majoring in English and winning awards for playwriting and fiction. After graduation some of his short fiction found publication in literary and genre magazines such as Nude Beach, The Belletrist Review, Nocturnal Ecstasy and Terminal Frights.

Kenyon moved to the Boston area in 1995 and took a position working in the marketing and communications field. In 2005 he sold his first novel, Bloodstone, to Five Star Publishing (Thomson Gale). Bloodstone was published a year later to critical acclaim, named a Bram Stoker Award finalist in hardcover, winning the P&E Horror Novel of the Year, and becoming one of Five Star’s all time bestselling speculative fiction titles. In 2007, mass-market paperback publisher Leisure Books signed him to a two-book contract for Bloodstone and his next novel, The Reach. Bloodstone was released from Leisure in May 2008, and The Reach hit shelves in December 2008, receiving a starred review from Publishers Weekly and raves from Booklist, Pop Syndicate, Dark Scribe and many more. His third novel, The Bone Factory, will be released in July 2009.

Kenyon has a trade paperback science fiction novella, Prime, coming in summer 2009 from Apex Books. He has recently had stories published in Shroud Magazine, Permuted Press’s Giant Creatures anthology, and Legends of the Mountain State 2, and has several others forthcoming. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and International Thriller Writers.

Kenyon still lives in the Boston area with his wife and three children, and is at work on his next novel.(from author's website)

The Bone Factory
Publisher/Publication Date: Dorchester Publishing Company, June 2009
ISBN: 9780843962871
336 pages

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A Study in Red by Brian L. Porter

Publisher: DD Literary Services and Graphic Design

About the book: A Study in Red - The Secret Journal of Jack the Ripper by Brian L Porter tells the story of Robert Cavendish, a modern day psychiatrist who is bequeathed a strange set of papers which purport to be the journal of the long-dead infamous Whitechapel Murderer whose crimes gripped the hearts and minds and instilled terror on the streets of Victorian London. As he begins to read the journal, Robert becomes convinced of it's authenticity and finds that the words of the Ripper have a strange and compelling effect on him. Unable to cast the pages aside he finds himself being drawn into the dark and sinister world of the killer until he is unable to distinguish what is fact and what is fantasy. In short, Robert Cavendish begins to feel as though he is being taken over in some way by the soul of the long-dead Ripper. What happens as he progresses through the journal will disturb and shock the reader as the close dividing line between sanity and madness is explored to the full. (from Barnes and Noble website)

To get the full effect - you really must go read this excerpt of A Study in Red.

About the author: Born in the UK in 1953, Brian L Porter served in the Royal Air Force, before beginning a career in retail management. Following a long depressive illness which saw him give up his career Brian took up writing as a means of expression. After having over 200 poems published, and three times being voted one of the Forward Press (UK) top 100 poets of the year he switched to short story writing, and to date has been rewarded with a number of successful publications of those stories, in the UK, Malaysia, and Holland. The Devil You Know and Wolf have been released as e-books. Over the last five years he has also successfully written and had five stage plays performed in local theatres. His stories including Night Flight and The Devil You Know have appeared in Capture Weekly Literary Journal in Kuala Lumpur, and Peccary Magazine in Holland recently published Mexican Therapy in their inaugural issue. The Voice, a dark psychological tale of brutal murder in Paris, was published by New Fiction in their anthology Mazes of the Mind ISBN 1 85929 141 4. The titles A Novel Tale, A Holy Grail, Final Confrontation, and Bodies in the Cellar have all been published by Secret Attic magazine. Recently his short stories Compliments of the Boss and A Long Way From Home have been published as e-books by RS Publishing in Australia. (From Double Dragon website)

A Study in Red
Publisher/Publication Date: DD Literary Services and Graphic Design, January 2008
ISBN: 9781554045273
244 pages

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